[Python-ideas] Unpack of sequences

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> it's probably better not to add a language feature and let users write
>> what they want.
> 
> How can users write a solution that does not require repetition of
> variable names? Of course I can write something like
> 
> a, b, c = [m.get(x) for x in ('a', 'b', 'c')]
> 
> but when I have more and longer names, this gets tedious.

>>> d = dict(a=1, b=2, c=3)
>>> locals().update(d)
>>> a
1
>>> b
2
>>> c
3

Not that I'd recommend doing this, but it's possible :-)

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